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    <p>Interfaces and classes used by
    the various implementations in the sub-packages.</p>

    <p>Definitive implementations of commonly used encoders and decoders.</p>

    <p>Codec is currently comprised of a modest set of utilities and a
    simple framework for String encoding and decoding in three categories:
    Binary Encoders, Language Encoders, and Network Encoders. </p>

    <h4><a name="Common Encoders">Binary Encoders</a></h4>

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          <td> 
            <a href="binary/Base64.html">
                com.codec.binary.Base64</a>
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            Provides Base64 content-transfer-encoding as defined in 
            <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt"> RFC 2045</a> 
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          <td>Production</td>
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           <a href="binary/Hex.html">
               com.codec.binary.Hex</a>
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          <td> 
            Converts an array of bytes into an array of characters
            representing the hexadecimal values of each byte in order 
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          <td>Production</td>
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    <h4> 
      <a name="Language Encoders">Language Encoders</a> 
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    <p> 
      Codec contains a number of commonly used language and phonetic
      encoders
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          <td> 
            <a href="#">org.apache.commons.codec.language.Soundex</a>
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          <td>Implementation of the Soundex algorithm.</td>
          <td>Production</td>
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          <td> 
            <a href="#">org.apache.commons.codec.language.Metaphone</a>
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          <td>Implementation of the Metaphone algorithm.</td>
          <td>Production</td>
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    <h4><a name="Network_Encoders">Network Encoders</a></h4>
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    <p> Codec contains network related encoders </p>
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          <td> 
            <a href="#">com.codec.net.URLCodec</a>
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          <td>Implements the 'www-form-urlencoded' encoding scheme.</td>
          <td>Production</td>
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